• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.430-434
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• 2003

This article describes the survey of biometrics verification system and the analysis of evaluating performance methodology. For this, firstly, survey is performed biometrics verification methods and systems using bio-based features and behaviour-based features. Also, I want to analyze the trend and utilities of biometrics verification system by evaluating performance methodology.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.652-656
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• 2001

인터넷 이용자가 급증하고 있는 오늘날, 제공되는 서비스가 중요할수록 각 사용자에 대한 신분확인이 다양한 방법에 의해 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문은 현재 가장 많이 이루어지고 있는 패스워드와 PIN 등의 기억기반 인증 방법과 신분확인에 유용하나 전문장치를 필요로 하고 사용에 약간의 불쾌감을 줄 수 있는 생체인식기법을 대체한 수 있는 인식 기반의 이미지 인증 방법을 제안하고 기존의 기억기반 인중 방법과 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.298-300
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• 2006

정보화 사회의 진행과 더불어 최근 스마트카드(smart card) 시스템을 비롯한 임베디드(embedded) 시스템의 사용이 활발해 짐에 따라 위/변조나 도용에 강건한 인증 시스템의 필요성이 그 어느 때 보다도 높아지고 있다. 그러나 카드 내부의 메모리 크기 및 프로세스의 처리 능력은 매우 제한적이어서 일반 컴퓨터 환경에서의 인증 알고리즘이 수행되지 않을 수 있다. 따라서 적은 메모리와 제한적 처리 능력 하에서 동작 가능한 생체인중 알고리즘의 개발이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 임베디드 생체인식 시스템을 위한 특징(feature) 추출을 위한 새로운 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법은 다음과 같은 의미를 가진다. 첫째 비선형 자료의 특징 추출 성능에서는 제안된 방법이 기존의 Kernel PCA와 유사한 성능을 나타내었다. 둘째 기존의 비선형 추출 기법에 비해 메모리 사용면에서 효율적이다. 특히 제안된 방법은 학습 자료의 개수 N이 클 경우에는 매우 유용하다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1233-1245
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• 2004

Though biometrics to authenticate a person is a good tool in terms of security and convenience, typical authentication algorithms using biometrics may not be executed on resource-constrained devices such as smart cards. Thus, to execute biometric processing on resource-constrained devices, it is desirable to develop lightweight authentication algorithm that requires only small amount of memory and computation. Also, among biological features, face is one of the most acceptable biometrics, because humans use it in their visual interactions and acquiring face images is non-intrusive. We present a new face authentication algorithm in this paper. Our achievement is two-fold. One is to present a face authentication algorithm with low memory requirement, which uses support vector machines (SVM) with the feature set extracted by genetic algorithms (GA). The other contribution is to suggest a method to reduce further, if needed, the amount of memory required in the authentication at the expense of verification rate by changing a controllable system parameter for a feature set size. Given a pre-defined amount of memory, this capability is quite effective to mount our algorithm on memory-constrained devices. The experimental results on various databases show that our face authentication algorithm with SVM whose input vectors consist of discriminating features extracted by GA has much better performance than the algorithm without feature selection process by GA has, in terms of accuracy and memory requirement. Experiment also shows that the number of the feature ttl be selected is controllable by a system parameter.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.2 s.98
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• pp.109-114
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• 2005

Many researchers have been interested in user authentication using biometric information, and face recognition is a lively field of study of ones in the latest biometric recognition field because of advantage that it can recognize who he/she is without touching machinery. This paper proposes method to extract eye location effectively at face detection step that is precedence work of face recognition. The iterative threshold selection was adopted to get a proper binary image and also the Gaussian filter was used to intensify the properties of eyes to extract an eye location. The correlation was adopted to verify if the eye location is correct or not. Extraction of an eye location that propose in paper as well as accuracy, considered so that may can apply to online system and showed satisfactory performance as result that apply to on line system.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1226-1232
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• 2004

Biometric authentication is rising technology for the security market of the next generation. But most of biometric systems are developed using only one of various biological features. Recently, there is a vigorous research for the standardization of various biometric systems. In this paper, we propose a web-based authentication system using three other verifiers based on functional, parametric, and structural approaches for one biometrics of handwritten signature, which is conformable to a specification of BioAPI introduced by BioAPI Consortium for a standardization of biometric technology. This system is developed with a client-server structure, and clients and servers consist of three layers according to the BioAPI structure. The proposed neb-based multiple authentication system of one biometrics can be used to highly increase confidence degree of authentication without additional several biological measurements, although rejection rate is a little increased. That is, the false accept rate(FAR) decreases on the scale of about 1:40,000, although false reject rate(FRR) increases about 2.7 times in the case of combining above three signature verifiers. So the proposed approach can be used as an effective identification method on the internet of an open network. Also, it can be easily extended to a security system using multimodal biometrics.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.172-177
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• 2008

In this paper, we design an authentication protocol based on Fuzzy Signature Vault Scheme using a light signature feature extraction method for user convenience and efficiency of electronic commerce. The signature is used broadly in electronic commerce because it is one of the simple and low-cost biometric items. However, signature has a problem that there are few low-cost and safe protocols. To solve this problem, we design a feature extraction method which is adequate for characters of signature and Fuzzy Vault Scheme. In addition, we design and analyze an efficient authentication protocol with some parameters used in this procedure. The followings are advantages when this protocol is applied to authentication procedure; 1) using convenient and low-cost signatures, 2) being possible to verify users with spending only about second for signature processing and authentication, 3) one time on transmission for sign-in and verification and 4) getting user authentication with secret value at the same time.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.859-865
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• 2010

In this paper, a new method for finger vein recognition is proposed. Researchers are recently interested in the finger vein recognition since it is a good way to avoid the forgery in finger prints recognition and the inconveniences in obtaining images of the iris for iris recognition. The vein images are processed to obtain the line shaped vein images through the local histogram equalization and a thinning process. This thinned vein images are processed for matching, using a new matching algorithm, named HS(HeeSung) matching algorithm. This algorithm yields an excellent recognition rate when it is applied to the curve-linear images processed through a thinning or an edge detection. In our experiment with the finger vein images, the recognition rate has reached up to 99.20% using this algorithm applied to 650finger vein images(130person ${\times}$ 5images each). It takes only about 60 milliseconds to match one pair of images.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.71-81
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• 2004

Minutiae-based fingerprint identification systems use minutiae points, which cannot completely characterize local ridge structures. Further, this method requires many methods for matching two fingerprint images containing different number of minutiae points. Therefore, to represent the fired length information for one fingerprint image, the filterbank-based method was proposed as an alternative to minutiae-based fingerprint representation. However, it has two shortcomings. One shortcoming is that similar feature vectors are extracted from the different fingerprints which have the same fingerprint type. Another shortcoming is that this method has overload to reduce the rotation error in the fingerprint image acquisition. In this paper, we propose the minutia-weighted feature vector extraction method that gives more weight in extracting feature value, if the region has minutiae points. Also, we Propose new fingerprint alignment method that uses the average local orientations around the reference point. These methods improve the fingerprint system's Performance and speed, respectively. Experimental results indicate that the proposed methods can reduce the FRR of the filterbank-based fingerprint matcher by approximately 0.524% at a FAR of 0.967%, and improve the matching performance by 5% in ERR. The system speed is over 1.28 times faster.